[PATCH] provide more errors for the "merge into empty head" case
From: Paolo Bonzini <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:12
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
--squash merges are not supported yet. They could be implemented by building the index from the merged-from branch, and doing a single commit. Non-fast-forward merges instead do not make sense, because you cannot make a merge commit if you don't have a base in the beginning. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <redacted> --- builtin-merge.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-merge.c b/builtin-merge.c
index b4c7eda..a3b9b10 100644
--- a/builtin-merge.c
+++ b/builtin-merge.c@@ -869,6 +869,11 @@ int cmd_merge(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (argc != 1) die("Can merge only exactly one commit into " "empty head"); + if (squash) + die("Squash commit into empty head not supported yet"); + if (!allow_fast_forward) + die("Non-fast-forward commit does not make sense into " + "an empty head"); remote_head = peel_to_type(argv[0], 0, NULL, OBJ_COMMIT); if (!remote_head) die("%s - not something we can merge", argv[0]);
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1.5.5